Thomas Kerr
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Antebellum
War Career
- Enlisted on May 10, 1861 in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Company D
- Corporal
- Sergeant
- Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Company D on September 13, 1862
- Wounded in action at the Battle of South Mountain
- Promoted to Captain of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry / Company D on July 1, 1863
- Promoted to Major of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry on October 19, 1864
- Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry on December 10, 1864
- Mustered out on July 14, 1865
Postwar Career
Family
Notes
Sources
Wisconsin. Adjutant-General's Office. Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Volume 1. (Madison, 1886). (Pages 494, 508)
Categories:
- Wisconsin Soldiers
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry
- Wisconsin Officers
- Soldiers from Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Soldiers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Source: RWV (1) 0494
- Source: RWV (1) 0508
- Wisconsin Wounded
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Wounded
- Wisconsin Wounded at South Mountain
- 6th Wisconsin Infantry Wounded at South Mountain
